Shaw v. Bond

Garrigues,. J.

This suit in equity by injunction is brought by plaintiffs in error against the Assessor, Treasurer and Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County to have certain taxes assessed and levied against the dam, the dam and reservoir site, and the inlet ditch or canal of Standley Lake reservoir, declared and adjudged invalid; and to restrain the collection of the tax and the issuance of a tax deed. By the dam and reservoir site is meant the surface *367of the earth upon which the dam and banks stand, and the basin or bed of the reservoir inundated.

The complaint alleges that the…